US Patent Issued to Hubbell on Dec. 30 for "Distributed charging station" (Connecticut, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,685, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).

"Distributed charging station" was invented by Nelson Bonilla (Shelton, Conn.), Jason Walker (Bethany, Conn.), John Brower (Fairfield, Conn.), Matthew Samojeden (Rye, N.Y.), Shadi AbuGhazaleh (Guilford, Conn.) and Nicole Gay (Thomaston, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device charging system including a battery configured to supply a type of power to at least one load device and a central charging station configured to receive the battery The central charging station including a locking mechanism configured to secure the battery to the central charging stati...